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Ranking Predatory Threats by Nonnative Fishes in the Yampa River, Colorado, via Bioenergetics Modeling

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Pages 1941-1953 | Received 08 Nov 2007, Accepted 08 Apr 2008, Published online: 08 Jan 2011

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